Omaha daily bee., 1887-07-04
Dakota.


Dakota.
Unless hailstorms prevail the wheat
crop in central Dakota will be unusually
heavy.
An Odd Fellows building, one of the
finest in the west, is soon to be erected at
Deadwood.
A gentleman named foskett proposes
to start large planning mill at Sioux
Fails IL proper assistance is given.
Great preparations are being made at
Woonsocket in anticipation of the SOL
dlers' and sailors reunion to take place
there in August.
The Kingsbury county agricultural So
ciety held its annual meeting u short
time ago and decided to hold fair this
fall. 1t is proposed to erect permanent
buildings and to that end an effort has
already been made to raise the necessary
money.
The Eleventh infantry, which has been
stationed at Fort Sully for twelve years
past has received orders to pack up and
go east, and will be stationed mt Bcdloe's
island, Sackett's harbor and Plattsburg
The officers and men are we'll pleased
with the change.
M. E. b. Chapman, president and man.
ager of the Rapid City, Wyoming Il
WeoteiH nalilotu company, VIII 70 east
THIS week to complete negotiations for
rails, locomotives and other things neces
sary to the equipment and operation of
the narrow gauge for some distance from
Rapid City into the Black Hills.
The Pacific Coast.
About 10000 sheep are beng driven
from various points in Oregon to Ne
braska this year.
The salmon pack on the Sacramento
this year is pronounced a failure. The
river has been overtished.
Work still continues on the repairs to
the old flagship Hartford, no orders 10
stop it having been received Mare
island from Washington.
San Diego is represented as the gamb.
!er's paradise of the coast, but Santa
Monica's bunkO achievements entitle her
to be classed good second.
Fifteen ostriches have just been Matched
from nest of seventeen fertile eggs at
Mount Fairview ostrich farm, near San
Diego, This is the best record ever made
in America. There are eighty birds at the
farm now.
An enterprising San Francisco saloon
keeper purchased a lot and started a gin
mill in the cemetery at Healdsburg, close
to the militia camp. The mingling of the
spirits was brief, however. The vigal-
autcs lnVAteu nllu 10 move OF get unuer
ground.
In recognition of the services rendered
by the Sisters of Charity during the re-
cent smallpox epidemic in Los Angeles,
the prominent citizens of that place have
presented the sisters with $40, 900. This
sum, in addition to the 100000 donated
by banker Helman, gives this religious
community $40 900, with which they will
commence the building of handsome
school and orphan asylum.
The big newspaper war in San Fran.
cisco is putting treasure in the pockets
of the printers. They are rolling in phat
and wealth, sport plug hats, fine clothes
and diamond pins, and lounge like mill
| lonaires in the parks and the theaters. A
| Nevada paper recently sent to Frisco for
| printer to take the place of one who
beat lottery ont of 81 900. A reply
was received from a printer, the only
one who was willing to come at all, to
| the effect that if he would be allowed to
work only two or three days per week:
as he chose, seeing as he thought he
might enjoy change of climate for a
| few weeks, he would not mind accepting
the position offered him. The foreman
telegraphed back that he needed o
| printer, not tourist.